Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment to reduce the country’s workweek from six days to five, providing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a key legislative win less
Fiji is enlisting New Zealand’s intelligence agency to help overhaul its fragmented security sector, the government said, as US warnings of suspected China-linked cyber intrusions highlight concerns about vulnerabilities in
South Korea’s Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday that continually changing the requirements for transferring wartime operational control from the United States could make the handover impossible.“Speaking in a personal
A failure by the United States and Iran to agree within weeks on a UN-backed plan for moving fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz could cause a food security crisis
British finance minister John Healey called on other nations to tighten sanctions on Russia-linked shipping, as he prepared to meet his foreign counterparts at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings
The Trump administration has rejected a government watchdog’s recommendation that US immigration officials should use technology that would automatically activate body-worn cameras when an officer pulls their weapon or sets
Costa Rica inaugurated a maximum-security prison on Wednesday as it stepped up its fight against organized crime after a surge in killings in what waslong one of Latin America’s safest
Kenya confirmed a second case of the Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which is linked to the first case, with no evidence of wider community transmission, the Ministry
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows early signs of slowing, but new hotspots are complicating response efforts, authorities said Wednesday.“For the past two weeks, we
A Chinese envoy to the United Nations on Wednesday called for efforts to stop the influx of illicit weapons into Haiti, after the Security Council adopted a resolution on renewing